Rehab is for Witches Spotlight~Review

 

Rehab is for Witches Anthology

Various Authors

Published By- SideStreet Cookie Publishing

Publication Date- October 31st, 2014

Welcome to Little Raven: an unsullied, beautiful woodland hamlet in the heart of the Midwest. The sort of place where furry creatures romp about and spend their days bursting into song.

Actually, that’s a giant pack of lies.

Little Raven is a town…for witches.

And some of those witches might have bent the rules. A teensy bit. When six magical miscreants dabble with black magic, they end up together at Incantations, the town’s rehab center for witches gone awry. It’s a slap on the wrist for naughty witches. Pretty much a daycare center so they don’t wander off and start turning people into newts on a whim. Each witch must work through her addiction to black magic, and follow the tenets designed to lead them back to the path of the straight and narrow, as boring as that sounds. Even if following the tenets sucks worse than a group round of kum-bay-ya. Which sucks. Horribly.

We will admit we are powerless over magic—that our lives have become unmanageable.

We will make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of the Goddess as we understand Her.

We will make a searching and fearless moral and magical inventory of ourselves.

We will admit to the Goddess, to ourselves, and to another being the exact nature of our magical wrongs.

We will make a list of all persons or beings we have harmed, and become willing to make amends to them all.

We will make direct amends to such beings whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

We are entirely ready to bow before the Goddess and have Her remove all our defect of character, even at the risk of being entirely stripped of our magic.

But this is just the start. There’s something rotten in Little Raven, something that seeks to take all the magic it can, and devour the inhabitants in the process. It will take the strength and power of all the witches to defeat the darkness seeping into their town, beat it back, and be rid of it forever…and maybe just make it through rehab while they’re saving the world.

The Authors & Titles-

Tara S. Wood - A Trunk Full of Peril

Tyffani Clark Kemp - A Diary Full of Names

Cynthia Valero - A Cauldron Full of Goodbyes

Miranda Stork - A Closet Full of Demons

J. A. Howell - A Basement Full of Secrets

Elle J Rossi - A Suitcase Full of Revenge

   

And here is an excerpt from A Suitcase Full of Revenge

My father had instructed the Watchmen to have me labeled an uncooperative inpatient upon check-in. Like any rehab facility, Incantations had rules, and I wondered how he had manipulated them to suit his needs. Technically, I was a first-time offender since he’d covered up all the other incidents, and should be listed as such on the outpatient log. I should know. Prompted by the screams only I seemed to hear, I’d been reading up about Incantations most of my life. I laughed out loud at my own naivety. My father could manipulate anyone and anything with money and a cheesy smile.

I laughed harder—the noise spilling from my mouth sounding deranged even to my own ears. The ferryman drew closer. The Watchmen shuffled uncomfortably at my side, both staring at me with cautious eyes. I glanced down and found my fingers smoking. I waggled a hand at the one on my right—Stump. His already grim mouth turned down so far his lips reminded me of a horseshoe. I shrugged and returned my attention to the approaching ferry. Something about the ferryman was familiar, but it was hard to tell with him being covered from head to toe in a ratty cloak. Still, his presence demanded my attention.

He docked the tiny barge and immediately offered me a hand. An involuntary twitch stuttered through my neck and I stepped back. I hadn’t really touched anyone since… I could almost hear the steel gate slam shut inside my head. My mind refused to go there.

I tried to see myself through his eyes, smell myself through his nose. They hadn’t allowed me to shower or change clothes before they’d forced me into the back of the SUV, prodding me with broomsticks of all things, to keep their distance. My skin and clothes had dark splotches from ash, and I couldn’t get away from my own stench of sweat and smoke.

Sasquatch stepped forward. “Don’t touch her, ferryman.”

The ferryman cocked his head.

“It’s alright,” he said to me, ignoring the warning. “She won’t tip. Let me help you aboard.”

I stood dead still. His voice.

What about his voice? Don’t listen to him. Listen to us!

I whipped my head to the right so fast I was surprised my neck didn’t pull a full three-sixty. 

“Shhh, Faye.” It had to be a coincidence, just someone who sounded like him.

“Faye?” the ferryman asked.

“Can’t you see she’s crazy?” Stump said with a shrug, followed by a rumble of laughter. 

“Touch her at your own risk.”

Sasquatch cleared his throat. “I don’t think that’s a good idea.”

“Shit. What do we care? It’s his life.” Stump jammed his hands into his front pockets. “Or death.”

The ferryman reached up and shoved his hood back.

I gasped. Said nothing. Considered running. Running until the memories of him and all the promises he’d made were nothing but dust in the wind. My mind screamed his name. My mouth refused to speak it aloud.

About the Author-

Elle J Rossi is a writer of Dark Paranormal and Fantasy Romance. Overly fond of the happily ever after, Elle lets her characters take control as they lead her down dark and twisted paths on their haunting journey toward love.

When not writing, you'll more than likely catch her hanging with her husband, two kids and a cat who truly does rule the roost, or stealing the mic from her friends as the duel over country karaoke.

  

Website- http://www.ellejrossi.com/

Favorite Lines “You may not be able to say the words, but I love you. I will find you. Keep running.”

“I have made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of the Goddess as I understand Her. Hello, Goddess.”

“You can’t ever let her know you care for something. She will always, always use it against you.”

“How do you know when to trust somebody?”

“So you admit you’re in need of a therapeutic romp? Because I’m totally down with that.”

What a great anthology! I loved it, each story tied together. Some of my favorite authors are in this book and they didn't not disappoint! Found some new authors to follow.

I've never read a story so well put together by so many fabulous authors! BRAVO TO LL THE AMAZING AUTHORS!!

I was given this book in exchange for an honest review (GHB)

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